The British Poets, Volume 4Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... half surpassed her intellectual climb : She knew no more than the old Hill of Howth About that " Children of a larger growth , " Who notes proceedings of the F. R. S.'s ; Kit North , was just as strange to her as South , Except the ...
... half surpassed her intellectual climb : She knew no more than the old Hill of Howth About that " Children of a larger growth , " Who notes proceedings of the F. R. S.'s ; Kit North , was just as strange to her as South , Except the ...
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... half a sprite a ghost elect ; Wherefore I write to thee this last adieu , With my last pen - before that I effect My exit from the stage ; just stopped before The tombstone steps that lead us to death's door . Full soon these living ...
... half a sprite a ghost elect ; Wherefore I write to thee this last adieu , With my last pen - before that I effect My exit from the stage ; just stopped before The tombstone steps that lead us to death's door . Full soon these living ...
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... ; One plunge , and then the victim was blind , Whilst they galloped across the tide ; At last , on the bank he waked in his mind , And the beauty was by his side . One half on the sand , and half in the 62 THE MERMAID OF MARGATE .
... ; One plunge , and then the victim was blind , Whilst they galloped across the tide ; At last , on the bank he waked in his mind , And the beauty was by his side . One half on the sand , and half in the 62 THE MERMAID OF MARGATE .
Page 63
One half on the sand , and half in the sea , But his hair all began to stiffen ; For when he looked where her feet should be , She had no more feet than Miss Biffen ! But a scaly tail , of a dolphin's growth , In the dabbling brine did ...
One half on the sand , and half in the sea , But his hair all began to stiffen ; For when he looked where her feet should be , She had no more feet than Miss Biffen ! But a scaly tail , of a dolphin's growth , In the dabbling brine did ...
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... half so many underneath its roof ; It tasked the Baroness's best endeavour , And put her best contrivance to the proof , To give them chambers up and down the stairs , In twos and threes , by singles , and by pairs . XV . She had just ...
... half so many underneath its roof ; It tasked the Baroness's best endeavour , And put her best contrivance to the proof , To give them chambers up and down the stairs , In twos and threes , by singles , and by pairs . XV . She had just ...
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Page 202 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 166 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 29 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While...
Page 162 - Com — com — I say ! You go away ! Into two parts my head you split — My fiddle cannot hear himself a bit, When I do play — You have no bis'ness in a place so still ! Can you not come another day?" Says he—
Page 260 - Till pots, and pans, and mighty kettles ring. 0 culinary Sage! (I do not mean the herb in use, That always goes along with goose,) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapped my tewah-diddle 1 on my head.
Page 54 - I'LL tell you a story that's not in Tom Moore : — Young Love likes to knock at a pretty girl's door : So he called upon Lucy — 'twas just ten o'clock — Like a spruce single man, with a smart double knock. Now, a handmaid, whatever her fingers be at, Will run like a puss when she hears a rat-tat- : So Lucy ran up — and in two seconds more Had questioned the stranger and answered the door.
Page 41 - TO THE REVIEWERS. What is a modern Poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; — The Critic spits on what is done, — Gives it a wipe, — and all is gone.